Dynamic Weather Maps

[Anon]

Any suggestions on how to create a dynamic weather map of the U.S. (similar to what you would see on most weather sites? I would like to display the temperatures of selected cities dynamically, using the same underlying map image.

[Anon]

The documentation for imagecreatefromjpeg(), imagettftext() and imagejpeg() suggests that it should be straightforward to overlay the information on a basemap. Have you tried it?

You also could set up a cron process using ImageMagick and do this outside of the PHP environment.

[Anon]

Thanks for the tip. I will pursue 🙂